JTA — When Donald Trump creates his initial revisit as boss to Israel after this month, he’s reportedly aiming to give a debate during a ancient towering outpost of Masada.

We don’t nonetheless know if he’ll rise a mount, a house built by a Judean aristocrat Herod a Great that became a final Jewish holdout scarcely 2,000 years ago opposite a conquering Roman army. But this isn’t a initial time a genuine estate noble and former existence TV star has wanted to put on an eventuality amid Masada’s ruins. The Atlantic reports this week that in 2011, Trump wanted to horde a Miss Universe Pageant there, according to Eran Sidis, a Knesset speaker’s arch of staff.

Masada, whose final Jewish inhabitants in 73 C.E. committed mass self-murder to equivocate surrender, is best famous currently as a traveller destination. Climbing a angled dried slope during morning is de rigueur for Jewish debate groups like Birthright, yet a wire automobile is also accessible for a reduction intrepid. It’s a renouned unison venue, with scenic views of a dried south of Jerusalem, nearby a Dead Sea. And it’s a deeply mystic end for members of Israel’s Nahal Brigade, who symbol a execution of simple training with a 12-hour travel from their bottom to Masada’s top.

Sidis tweeted that Trump, who owned a manifestation until 2015, saw a plcae as good PR, yet it’s misleading either he meant good PR for Israel or a pageant. But had a manifestation been hold there, continue competence have gotten in a way. The manifestation is customarily hold in December, nearby a rise of Israel’s rainy, breezy and cold winter. Not a best place for a swimsuit contest, perhaps.

Whatever a reason, a manifestation didn’t work out. It was hold that year in São Paulo, Brazil, where Dec temperatures normal in a 70s.

Sigal Samuel, who wrote a Atlantic article, suggests because Trump has an affinity for Masada. Trump, Samuel writes, “loves an underdog. Throughout a presidential campaign, he regularly decorated himself as one. Cultivating an picture as a male spurned by a domestic establishment, a media, and magnanimous elites, he endeared himself to electorate who further saw themselves as ‘the small guys.’”